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Indigenous cops are cops, too
To stifle Indigenous organizing, the Canadian government is investing in Indigenous police officers.
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The myth of police as “embattled heroes”
The Winnipeg police union says officers are constantly under attack by everything from “gang members” to video games to bedbugs. It’s a strategy to persuade the public that the only solution is more police and more money.
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Organizing against education’s jailers
Police-free schools means kicking cops out, keeping them out, and much more.
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Police and property
The theme of property – and the vision of a world no longer organized by its logic – is one that is threaded through most of the stories in this issue.
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The labour movement is stronger without police in it
It’s time for unions to expel police from their membership, because a strong labour movement can only be built on a foundation of safety for Black and Indigenous members.
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Real climate action means defunding the police
A little-known arm of the RCMP has spent tens of millions of dollars brutalizing Indigenous land defenders and their allies while enforcing injunctions for resource extraction companies in B.C.
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Parasitic Solidarity
Unions are meant to defend their working-class members against unfair criticism and wrongful termination. But in Winnipeg, the police union is working to obstruct accountability for police officers who kill and abuse people.
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A new crisis service
Amid calls to defund and ultimately abolish the police, we spoke to the people who are already working on replacing the police with crisis workers in Canada.
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Comic: No police at overdoses
Police often show up at overdose scenes when someone calls 911 – despite the fact that police presence has not been requested nor is it warranted. This short comic illustrates some of the findings of a new report on Canada’s Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act.
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Police protect corporations, not people
From Wet’suwet’en to the Co-op refinery picket line, cops are acting as a central impediment to a liveable climate future
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Sask Dispatch
Regina’s 92-million-dollar problem
A crisis of underfunded social programs leads to an increased crime rate, which is used to justify ballooning police budgets. Activists are making the case for defunding the police.
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Sask Dispatch
Does Saskatchewan need a citizen watchdog for the police?
A fatal police-involved shooting has prompted calls for Saskatchewan to create an independent citizen oversight body. But what if most civilian committees aren’t made up solely of civilians at all?
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Sending Josephine home
Josephine Pelletier was shot to death by Calgary police in May. Her life and death shed light on the complicated interplay between colonialism, incarceration, and police brutality. This is her story.
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Racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city
In her new book, Seven Fallen Feathers, journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the stories of seven Indigenous students in Thunder Bay whose lives were cut short.
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Infiltrated!
When the Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity Movement of Ottawa was infiltrated by a police officer, organizers were left feeling betrayed and paralyzed. How did they rebuild and strengthen their movement?
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School Dispatch
Police officers are stationed in high schools across Toronto under the guise of ensuring school safety. With powers to search and arrest students, they criminalize student conduct and build mistrust and alienation among marginalized students.
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I was racially profiled, roughed up, & detained by police for being Indigenous
It’s time to speak out.
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“Sheriff John Brown always hated me”
Afrikans living in Toronto and across Canada face targeted police profiling and violence. Organizer Ajamu Nangwaya explains why and what can be done.